Wolfs-Head: Óðinn, the Ecstatic God of Tethers & Skin-Turning WHOLESALE-HIDE The first academic study of

The first academic study of this little-known aspect of folk magic

so much of our history still remains lost

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in an intriguing ‘double-fronted’ format

Wolfs-Head: Óðinn, the Ecstatic God of Tethers & Skin-Turning WHOLESALE-HIDE The first academic study ofAuthor: Shani Oates As a transpersonal state, berserkergangr has attracted a host of theories that attempt to explain or rationalise it as a drug induced frenzy, or insanity. Too few studies are open to the possibility of an enhanced state of spiritual intoxication, of god possession. Being an ecstatic madness, that dedication to an extreme warrior code is more akin to the mysterious disciplines of the east that demand, privation, ordeal and self